Violent clashes erupted between police and protesters in Istanbul today, as hundreds tried to breach barricades and reach the city’s main square to mark May Day in defiance of a government...

A truce has been reached between three foreign climbers and Nepalese Sherpa guides who were involved in a fistfight on Mount Everest, officials said today. Two of the foreigners, however,...

The U.S. woman whose acquittal in the murder of a British student has been overturned in Italy says in an interview that what happened to her was "surreal but it could have happened to...

    Venezuela's postelection tensions erupted into a brawl between lawmakers Tuesday night that left at least one opposition member badly bruised and...

    A 5-year-old girl has died after being raped in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, an official said Tuesday, in the latest in a series of brutal attacks that have sparked...

Italian Premier Enrico Letta's cross-party government won a final vote of confidence vote in Parliament on Tuesday, giving life to a grand coalition that aims to put aside decades of animosity to...

Retired Pope Benedict XVI is coming home.   The Vatican says the 86-year-old emeritus pontiff will move into his new retirement home in the Vatican gardens Thursday.   Benedict has...

Willem-Alexander became the first Dutch king in more than a century Tuesday as his mother, Beatrix, abdicated after 33 years as queen.   The generational change in the House of Orange-Nassau...

The election of a new pope always sparks debate about the tension between tradition and modernity in the Catholic Church. Perhaps more interesting is the ongoing modernization of the language in which...

    Italy's new government easily passed its first confirmation vote Monday in Parliament after Premier Enrico Letta made concessions to his uneasy coalition allies, promising to...